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Robert Sylvester, the other son of Robert, Sr., and brother of Michael, had children : 1st. LOAMI B., born March 18, 1832 ; married Emeline A. Pratt, June 16, 1858. He died in the war, Sept. 6, 1862. They had one child, Sarah E., born May 27, 1859, who married William Stearns, of Wayland, Mass., June 16, 1884. SUSANNA F., second child of Robert, born April 5, 1834 ; married Wm. T. Lapham, of So. Boston, and they have two children. BELCHER, third child of Robert, born May 26, 1837 ; died July 21, 1838. ELIZABETH B., fourth child of Robert, born July 5, 1839 ; married, Nov. 9, 1859, I. H. Macomber, of East Marshfield. They have children : 1. Herbert I., born Feb. 19, 1866. 2. Walter S., born Aug. 8, 1884. SARAH E., fifth child of Robert, born Sept. 1, 1843; married, Nov. 9, 1864, George H. Allen, of Boston. They have children : 1. Fannie S., born Ang. 13, 1869. 2. Sadie S., born Sept. 17, 1871. 3. Grace H., born June 29, 1874. JULETTA, sixth child of Robert, born April 14, 1845 ; married Frank A. Clapp. They have two children, and live in Wake- field, Mass. ROBERT, JR., seventh child of Robert, born June 20, 1847 ; married, Nov. 22, 1868, Mary Bailey Turner. They have one child, Robert B., born April 10, 1871.
Michael Sylvester, Sr., married, for his first wife, Mary, sister of Sage Bardin, who became the wife of Nathaniel Syl- vester. Both were daughters of Capt. Thomas Bardin, the founder of the iron works at Curtis Forge. Michael's second wife was Ruth Turner. He resided in the old homestead for- merly occupied by his father Amos, which stood on Washington street, near the present residence of Robert Sylvester, and which was for many years a tavern stand. About three months after his
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father died, the old house was burned, as appears by an item in the Boston News Letter and New England Chronicle, May 20, 1762 :
" The house of Mr. Michael Sylvester, at Hanover, lately took fire (occasioned, it is supposed, by a defect in the chimney), about two o'clock in the morning. The family escaped by jumping out of the windows, and could save nothing of the household goods, which, with the house, were soon entirely consumed."
It was probably immediately rebuilt. Barry records the death of Michael's son Robert, June 4, 1768, but does not speak of the tragic circumstances attending it, as appeared in the Boston Evening Post, June 13, 1768 :
" Last Friday, a child of Mr. Michael Sylvester, of Hanover, about three years old, fell into a tub of hot water, and scalded one arm to the arm-pit, of which it died next day."
" Builder Silvester " built mostly schooners, as they were in demand at this time. During the years 1700 to 1775, there was a great business done in cutting and selling wood through- out these towns, which furnished freight for many of the schoon- ers which did a coasting business from North River. In an old account-book, now in the possession of Miss Sarah Thomas, Marshfield, commencing with the date 1693, there appears in the wood business the names of John Rogers, Amos Sylyester, Ebenezer Sprout, Capt. Barker, and Nathaniel Winslow (who owned the book ). "Builder " or Nathaniel Silvester died Feb. 21, 1781. His son Elijah was a ship-builder, but his son Na- thaniel succeeded him at the bridge yards. He continued here, building mostly schooners, until 1795, when the yard passed into the hands of Jonathan Sampson. Nathaniel Sylvester soon after removed to Winchendon, Mass. There is recorded one vessel surely built by him in 1786, Sch. "SWALLOW," 68 tons ; built at Hanover, and owned by Nathaniel Winslow of Scituate, Nathaniel Silvester of Hanover, and others; and in 1789 the Sch. "LYDIA," built at Hanover, afterward hail- ing from New Bedford, was probably built by him.
Jonathan Jargon built here from 1795 until about 1820. He was born in Pembroke (at Crookertown), and probably descended from Henry Sampson, who arrived in Duxbury in 1620, according to Winsor. He lived, after his first marriage, in the house now occupied by Aurora Sampson; but, after
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taking the above yard, he is said soon to have accumulated a large fortune, for those days, building ships for the residents of Duxbury and Boston, and many vessels for the cod fishery at the Grand Banks. He built the "Caliban," 311 tons, re- ferred to later, which was the largest ship ever built at this yard. How they got her out of the river from here is a mystery. He is said to have built thirty-two vessels in Hanover. He is re- membered by the old residents as a very social man, and one of the many hospitable men of his day who loved their "eleven o'clock and four," and his wealth enabled him to indulge in all the luxuries of his time. He was honest and upright, and the traditions of fifty years ago say that he paid his men off by carrying to his yard a bushel of silver dollars, from which they paid themselves. This also speaks well for the honesty of our old ship-carpenters. Soon after his first marriage, he built the house afterward used as a tavern, and later occupied by Sum- ner Stetson, now the residence of Ex-Mayor Bacon, late of Chelsea, Mass. It overlooks the old ship-yard, being located in Pembroke, near North River Bridge, on the hill just oppo- site, and on the other side of the river from the residence of the late Horatio Bigelow.
In his palmy days he conceived the idea of erecting an ice- house for his own use. Many will remember having heard of Jonathan Sampson's ice-house. It was a new thing in those parts, at that time, and when Mr. Sampson built it, about half way between his house and the river, it became an object of much interest to the town's people, and excited a good deal of com- ment. It was built " upon honor," and during the winter packed full of ice. Ice being such a novelty in the summer time in those days in the country, he decided to wait until the middle of June before opening it, and then to invite all the prominent people, and especially ship-carpenters in the region round about. Accordingly on the day appointed, they all met at the ice-house, where Mr. Sampson had large quantities of lemons, brandy and sugar, and all that was wanting was the ice and water to make the celebration complete. An axe was procured and the door cut down, but to the amazement of all it was dry and warm as a summer's day inside. Mr. Sampson was very much disturbed, and the wag of the town, Joshua Stetson, coming up and asking him if he could hire the house for his wife to dry her apples in, did not make him feel any more comfortable.
Jonathan Sampson married for his first wife, Chloe, daughter
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of Nathaniel Stetson. She was born in 1763. They had several children among whom were Melzar, Chloe, Timothy, John and Sarah. They have four grand-children now living, two in Medford, Alexander Sampson, who lives with his son and daughter on High street, Duxbury, and Aurora Oldham Samp- son, married, lives in the old homestead and has several children. The stern posts of Jonathan Sampson's ships stood quite up to, and the staging was actualy over, the old road, which at this place was but 23 rods wide. The first vessel recorded as having been built by him was the ship " PEMBROOK," 184 tons, for Nathaniel Cushing of Pembroke. He also built, in 1801, the ship "BENJAMIN," 188 tons, of Boston, built at Hanover ; and in 1802 the sch. "JANE," 98 tons, of Boston, built at Hanover. In 1803 it does not appear that he built any vessels ; but in 1804 he built the sch. "AMAZON," 107 tons, of Duxbury, built at Hanover, and in 1805 the ship "COR- DELIA," 252 tons, of Boston, built at Hanover. The two vessels named " MARTHA," were probably built by him. The first was the double decked bark " MARTHA," 255 tons, 14 feet draft, built in 1805, at Hanover, Mass. Oak, iron and copper fastened. Sheathed with yellow metal, Nov. 1867. In 1872 used as a whaler from New Bedford. Capt. Gartland. Afterwards sold and put under the Dutch flag. She was owned in 1875 by Van Loon & Son, of Harlinger, and may be in exist- ence now. Her name was changed to "Marnix," when she was put under the Dutch Flag. The other "MARTHA," built in 1809, was a London Packet from Nantucket. In 1815 was whaling, and in 1849 she sailed for San Francisco, where she was broken up in 1851, being one of the many old vessels bought by companies of men who fitted them up to go to Cali- fornia during the gold fever. Jonathan Sampson built his large ship in 1811. The ship " CALIBAN," 311 tons, of Boston, built at Hanover, Jonathan Samson, M. C. In 1812, Jonathan Sampson also built a ship sold to James Penniman, Boston. Tradition says that Jonathan Sampson had a vessel building at the Bridge when the Embargo Act became a law. He left a vessel half finished on the stocks where it stood during the embargo, sometime after which it was finished. This was probably the vessel he launched in 1815, the ship " SARAH," 307 tons, of Boston. She was lost on the Arklow Banks off the coast of Ireland on the night of the 15th of Feb- ruary, 1818. He built in 1816 the sch. "FAIR LADY," 104 tons, of Kingston, built at Hanover. She was in the Atlantic,
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whaling, in 1822. Also, in 1816 he built tiro schooners, sold to Peter Windsor. Later he built the " WELCOME RETURN." He probably built few vessels after the war of 1812. The Embargo was a severe blow to him as it was to all shipbuilders. His first wife died previous to 1821, and he married for his second a young lady named Higgins, and removed to Medford, having lost much of his fortune.
Jonathan Sampson was succeeded at this yard by the firm of Turner, Palmer & Magoun, who had built at the Brick Kih Yard in Pembroke, separately, and Turner also built at the Fox Hill Yard, in So. Scituate, now Norwell. They had as many as three vessels on the stocks at one time. Their yards covered all of the land on the water-front of the present French estate. About the time the bridge was built they were obliged to change the position of their vessels built at the old yard, as it was found impracticable to launch from the former position on account of a rock in the river, and they moved a few rods below the present bridge, as hereinafter stated. This firm built mostly sınall vessels. Barker Turner, the senior member, is said to have built twenty-two vessels for Scituate Harbor alone. He was a musician in the old military company, 2nd Regiment, in 1815, and his descendants have been musicians ever since. Mr. Turner lived on the old Plymouth Road, towards the south from the bridge and at the corner of Brick Kiln Lane, in the house now occupied by his grandson, Charles Turner .* The Turners of Pembroke were nearly all shipbuilders or ship-car- penters in those days, and they so trained their children to the use of the broad axe and maul that to-day "the sight of a white oak tree that is large enough to make a ship's knee will make their eyes dilate and the muscles in their arms and fingers con- traet with a desire to grasp the handle of a broad-axe and hew it into shape. No more ships will be built in the old yards, no more ship-carpenters will be seen wending their way in the carly dawn to the old Brick Kiln Yard, through deep drifts of snow, even with the fences the entire length of Brick Kiln Lane. No more vessels loaded with the necessaries of life from Medford, and whose weekly arrival brought joy and consolation to the strong as well as to the weak, will navigate the beautiful and winding river. Never again will be heard the twang of the maul or the ring of the blacksmith's hammer. All these
* See Brick Kiln Yard, continued chapter.
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things have passed away, and the Sabbath stillness that pervades the locality is suggestive of a peaceful rest in a higher sphere."*
Jeduthan Palmer, t the second member of this firm was born in Hanover about 1786, on what was then known as the old Drinkwater Road (now Hanover street), near Randall's swamp, at the headwaters of the Beaver Dam Brook, in the house still standing in good repair and occupied by the family of the late Norman Chamberlain. His house was formerly the residence of Richard Fitzgerald, the first schoolmaster of the town, and later of Dr. Melzar Dwelley a noted physician in his time. The estate joined that of Rev. Benj. Bass, the first minister of the town, whose ordination was noticed in a paper at the time, as follows :
" Hanover, Dec. 11, (1728). This Day was Ordained here the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Bass. The Rev. Mr. Gay of Hingham began with Prayer, and the Sermon on the Occasion was preach'd by the Rev. Mr. Sam'l Checkley of Boston, from Ezek. 3, 17, 18, 19. 'Son of man I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity . but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked and he turn not from his wickedness nor from his wicked way he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.' The Rev. Mr. Ells of Scituate gave the charge, and the Rev. Mr. Lewis of Pembroke the Righthand of Fellowship."-The New England Weekly Journal.
Jeduthan Palmer was the son of Ephraim and Desire Old- ham Palmer and a lineal descendent of John Palmer, a farmer, who settled in the Plymouth Colony in 1657, and whose resi- dence was near Church Hill in what is now Norwell. His descendants built ships at Fox Hill and on the Chittenden Yard. John Palmer, Sen., belonged in Boston and was sent to Scituate as a Stock Raiser, by the Massachusetts Court .; It was probably John Palmer, Jr., that was on the council of Gov. Andros, 1686-90, and who was sent prisoner to England with the Governor about the latter year.§ Jeduthan was about eleven years of age when his father died, in 1797, in
* Article on Ship-building by John Tower in the North River Pioneer.
+ For further account of Palmer see Brick Kiln Yard, continued chapter.
Į See Colony Records, about 1635.
§ See Drake's History of Boston.
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Hanover, and a few years later he was sent to Pembroke to learn the ship-carpenter trade of Calvin Turner. After serving his time, and having learned his trade, he married his master's daughter, Miss Sally, sister of Luther Turner. They began house-keeping at her home at the Brick-kilns, but afterwards removed to the Lapham House (so called) at the corner of Brick-kiln Lane, (formerly occupied by Christopher Jones the pump-maker, a native of North Carolina, who has descendants in Rockland), and later to the Jonathan Sampson house now owned and occupied by A. J. Bacon, Esq., a former Mayor of Chelsea. At this time Mr. Palmer commenced building vessels on his own account, and for a number of years he built at the Brick-kiln Yard, and also at the Yard where the present Bridge stands and in its near vicinity. In 1827 he was paid $6.00 for four and one half days work at Keen's Wharf on Foster's ship, " Lagoda." About 1830 he withdrew from the firm and pur- chased the house in So. Scituate where the late Roger Stetson resided, near the old Tom "Church's Hill Muster Grounds," and continued following the trade of ship-carpenter until he sold out, and removed with his family to Waltham. Mr. Palmer had a family of nine children : 1. Charles, now living in Hanover. 2. Sally, who married a Mr. Brackett of Waltham, where she now resides. 3. Jeduthan, who went to sea and was knocked from the main boom and lost overboard. 4. Mary Ann, who married Gen. N. P. Banks, who was also Governor of Massachusetts, now residing with her family in Waltham, and whose daughter, Maud, is a distinguished actress. 5. Amanda, now dead. 6. Alice, who married Mr. Seaman, a portrait painter and lives, we believe, in New York. 7. Julia. 8. William, who we hear lives with his sister, Mrs. Banks. 9. Daniel, who lives in Waltham. Mr. Palmer died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Banks, in 1858, or '59, after a long and useful life. Charles, his oldest son, born in Pembroke, July 18, 1812, was educated as a ship-carpenter and worked in Pembroke, Hanover, South Boston and Medford. When about twenty-five years of age his mind became mysteriously affected, incapacitating him for work, not so seriously impairing his faculties, however, but that he is still able, at the age of seventy-eight, to enjoy life. He is social in his disposition, gentlemanly in his manners, and is an appreciative lover of music.
The third member of this firm, Enoch Magoun, was born near High street, Pembroke, about 1792, and died there in
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1840. He was son of Joshua, who lived near him and died one year later. They were both ship-builders .* This firm built one vessel in 1827, brig " LYSANDER." 110 tons, built by Turner, Palmer & Magoun for Isaiah and Ichabod Alden and Matthew HIall, Scituate. In 1828 they had three vessels on the stocks at one time. The one farthest down stream was the brig " BARCLAY," 166 tons, of Newburyport, afterwards of Westport, Mass., built at Hanover, by Turner, Palmer & Magoun. The next above was sch. "WOLGA," 73 tons, length 60 feet, breadth 17 feet, depth 7 feet, built at Hanover. Owners : Jesse Dunbar, Sr. and Jr., John Beal, Peleg Jenkins, Alfred, Catharine and Henry Clapp, Robert Paul and Seth Webb, all of Scituate. She was commanded by Capt. Chandler Clapp. Charles Howard of Pembroke went one voyage to No. Carolina in her. A raft of timbers was placed on the other side of the river for her to strike against, thus retarding her headway when launched, it being the custom at some yards, to prevent vessels from getting stuck in the mud on the opposite bank. She was built very full, and Joshua Stetson went down and looked at her just before she was launched, then proceeded to the store at Hanover Four Corners, where were assembled a group of men, probably ship carpenters. They asked him what he thought of the craft. He replied, "a very handsome vessel, gentlemen, but an eighth of an inch too full on her lug water line."t She was finally lost at sea.
The last of these vessels, which were on the stocks at the same time this year, and the one nearest the bridge, was after- wards used as a North River Packet, and had one half as many owners as she was tons in size. This was the sloop " MAGNOLIA," 36 tons, built in 1828, length 50 feet, breadth 17 feet, depth 4 feet. She was owned by Asa Sherman, Jonathan Stetson, Stephen Rogers, Elisha and Daniel Phillips, and Chandler Sampson of Marshfield ; Alden and Luther Briggs, Horace Collamore and Calvin Shepard and Ben. Rogers, Pembroke ; Cushing O. Briggs, Elisha Foster, Anson Robbins, William Copeland and Henry Briggs, Scituate ; and Aurora W. Oldham, of Hanover. This schooner Barker Turner built lying up and down river or parallel to it. At the old yard in
See Pembroke Yards.
t The term " Ing water line " was often used in speaking of a vessel when the water line came at a point on her hull, which caused her to lug a good deal of water under her stern.
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Hanover, located where the present bridge now is, it happened just before the launching of this schooner, that Cyrus and Isaiah Alden Turner, (the latter commonly known as Alden Turner), then quite small, and both now living in Pembroke, were play- ing in a boat on the river, and finding a rock a few rods below the present middle pier of the bridge, Cyrus got out and stood on it, the water being nearly to the tops of his boots. His father, seeing him, called out to him to remain where he was, as the rock was not known to the builders. He did so, and it was found that in launching the vessel, she would probably strike on the rock, which was only two or three times her length from the ways, and in a line following the course she would take. They concluded, therefore, to launch her sideways, which was accordingly done, and she was taken through the channel, which was then on the north side of the rock. After this the vessels were built about six rods below the present bridge abutment. The work-house was in the rear of the yard, and for many years stood on the land owned by the late Dr. French, but was afterwards moved to Frank Arnold's, North Pembroke. Later still, the firm moved a little farther down the river, to the upper part of Elijah Barstow's yard, and just below the boat-house formerly owned by Clifford Ramsdell, now of Abington, and Eben C. Waterman, of Hanover. Vessels launched from this yard stuck in Sherman's meadows; and often required bed-screws and other furniture to get them out.
Sometime between 1829 and 1835 Palmer and Magoun with- drew from the firm, and the latter year Barker Turner built alone the sch. "PHILENIA," 96 tons, of Boston, owned by John Peters, Charles Cole, Jr. and John C. Otis, of Scituate, which was built at Hanover. The next year he built two vessels, viz : 1836, sch. "QUEEN,"100 tons, of Boston, Barker Turner, M. C., built at Hanover, and the same year, 1836, sch. "GARNET," 65 tons, of Provincetown, Barker Turner, M. C., built at Hanover. The "Garnet," was built entirely of pitch pine, not one stick of oak being used in her. She was in the fisheries for many years, and was the last vessel built at this yard, and probably the last built by Barker Turner alone, although he built the sch. " Roanoke " in company with Joseph L. Bates and others at Barstow's Yard in 1842 .* The
* See Barstow's Yard.
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river is now so filled up with lilies and grass, which hold an accumulation of mud, that it is hard to realize that vessels of any size were launched into the stream at this point, but if it were thoroughly cleaned of all the mud to its good, hard, rocky bottom there would be to-day plenty of depth for vessels of equal size to float.
CHAPTER V.
MISCELLANEOUS YARDS IN PEMBROKE. - 1793-1803.
NATHANIEL CUSHING, COL. GEORGE TURNER, THOMAS TURNER, ROBERT MAGOUN, JOB RANDALL, JR., EPIIRAIM RANDALL, AND AARON SHERMAN.
W TITH the exception of the Brick-kilns, we have been unable to find the records of any vessels built in Pembroke pre- vious to the Revolution. It is impossible to tell which of the early vessels were built in Duxbury and which were built on what is now Pembroke territory. That the yards at Seabury Point and Job's Landing were used there is little doubt, and possibly Turner's yard ; but during the excitement of Revolu- tionary times, ship-building was probably like most other busi- ness, at a standstill. That the fever of excitement ran high in this vicinity is shown by the following, taken from the Massa- chusetts Gazette and the Boston Weekly News Letter, March 2, 1775 :
" The following is an address to Gen. Gage, presented by the Selectmen of six towns in the County of Plymouth, occasioned by a number of soldiers being stationed at Marshfield, in said county, in time of peace : 'To His Excellency, Thomas Gage, Esq. : May it please your Excellency, we, His Majesty's loyal subjects, Selectmen of the several towns of Plymouth, Kingston, Duxborough, Pembroke, Hanover and Scituate, deeply affected with a sense of the increasing dangers and calamities which menace one of the most promising countries upon the earth with political excision, cannot but lament that, while we are endeavoring to preserve peace and maintain the authority of the law, at a period when the bands of government are relaxed by violent infractions on the Charter of the Province, our enemies are practising every infictious stratagem to seduce the people into acts of violence and outrage. We beg leave to address your Excellency on a sub- ject which excites our apprehensions extremely, and in the representations of facts, we promise to pay that sacred regard to truth, which, had our
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adversaries observed, we flatter ourselves it would have precluded the ne- cessity of our addressing your Excellency on this occasion. We are in- formed, from good authority, that a number of people from Marshfield and Scituate have made application to your Excellency, soliciting the aid of a detachment of His Majesty's troops for the security and pro- tection of themselves and properties. That fears and intimidation were entirely groundless, that no design or plan of molestation was formed against them, or existed but in their own imaginations, their own declara- tions and their actions, which have a more striking language, abundantly demonstrate. Several men of unquestionable veracity, residing in the town of Marshfield, have solemnly called God to witness, before one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, that they not only never heard of any inten- tion to disturb the complainants, but repeatedly saw them, after they pre- tended to be under apprehensions of danger, attending to their private affairs without arms, and even after they had lodged their arms a few miles from their respective houses. They frequently declared, in conversation with the deponents, that they were not apprehensive of receiving any in- jury in their persons or properties, and one of them, who is a minor (as many of them are), being persuaded to save his life by adjoining himself to the petitioners, but afterwards abandoning them, by the request of his father, deposeth, in the like solemn manner, that he was under no intimida- tion himself, nor did he ever hear any one of them say that he was. It appears as evident as if written with a sunbeam, from the general tenor of the testimony (which we are willing to lay before your Excelleney, if de- sired), that their expressions of fear were a fallacious pretext, dictated by the inveterate enemies of our Constitution, to induce your Excellency to send troops into the country to augment the difficulties of our situation, already very distressing; and what confirms this truth (if it need any con- firmation), is the assiduity and pains which we have taken to investigate it. We have industriously and impartially scrutinized into the cause of this alarm, and cannot find that it has the least foundation in reality. All that we have in view, in this address, is to lay before your Excellency a true state of facts, and to remove the opprobrium which this movement of the military reflects on this country ; and as a spirit of enmity and falsehood is prevalent in the country, and as everything which comes from a gentle- man of your Excellency's exalted station naturally acquires great weight and importance, we earnestly entreat your Excellency to search into the grounds of every report, previous to giving your assent to it.'"
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